Cursitor Doom is trying to usurp Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson fro
m his role as the leading peddler of self-serving delusions around here.

Trump has made remarkably few decisions that have actually had any effect -
he's remarkably ineffective as US presidents go - and none of them qualify
as "very good" by any objective test. A few of them may be seen as panderi
ng to Trump's deplorable support base, who are consequently inordinately ch
uffed by them, but that's the hallmark of a rather poor decision.

I don't know if HL Mencken wrote anything like this, but it sounds like
something he would've written, maybe: "An American will accolade and
praise a nincompoop who on one spectacular occasion makes a correct
decision, with the very same fervor and vigor that he curses and
condemns an expert who makes the correct decision in all cases except
the one occasion he spectacularly slips up."